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The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’

At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”

You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’